Terence Verla, MD
Neurological Surgery · Orlando, FLNPI 1508251489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 67.6% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,008, 5.3 times the $3,198 reported in 2022.
Across 142 payments — averaging $212.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$20K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$993
- plus $2K from 11 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $500.07 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,15040%
- Travel & lodging$10,62435%
- Food & beverage$5,88720%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 84 | $20,401 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 7 | $2,479 |
| Globus Medical | 12 | $2,248 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $1,501 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,012 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $993 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $359 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $286 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $250 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $215 |
| Abbott | 2 | $144 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $102 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$13,896
- Other - Miscellaneous$993
- X-PAC$900
- UNID_PASS$875
- Sable$690
- RISE$469
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$428
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$397
- Excelsius Robotics System$321
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$286
- EXPEDIUM$238
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$167
- STRATA$162
- CORE$160
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$135
- PILLAR SA$128
- M6-C$128
- PICO$123
- PROCLAIM$121
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$110
How this compares
$30,161 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other neurological surgery in Orlando
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Avery BuchholzOrlando$790K
- Hunaldo VillalobosOrlando$517K
- Virgilio MatheusOrlando$485K
- Jogi PattisapuOrlando$238K
- Joseph WehmanOrlando$167K
- Jay VachhaniOrlando$149K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.